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As if Archie’s song, “Leave Us Face It” was not enough, now he has written a musical for him to perform with stage star Gertrude Lawrence.
Originally aired on March 14, 1944. This is episode 121 of Duffy's Tavern.
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Speaker 1 (00:16):
Welcome to classic comedy of old time radio. I'm your host,
Ron Ecklbarger. As if Archie's song leave Us Face it
was not enough, now he has written a musical for
him to perform with stage star Gertrude Lawrence. Leave us
Listen to this one hundred twenty first episode of Duffy's Tavern,
(00:36):
entitled Guest Gertrude Lawrence. It originally aired on March fourteen,
nineteen forty four.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
A special rebroadcast for the American Armed Forces and their
All Eyes. You're invited to drop in where the elite
meet to weet Duffy's Tabern.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Hello, Duffy's Talvin, were you late, mede dot you imad
just making Duffy ain't here?
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Hello Duffy.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
The crowd here you were never seen a swallow looking
bunch of crumbs as the English called them brutons. Well,
you say, Greg Good Lawrence is coming down hit tonight
soda crowd all dressed up formal. Yeah, practically everybody is
wearing shoes well ext mariarity. Of course he didn't have
(01:47):
an eighteen coup on, so he just went out and
got a pedicure.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Yeah, uh, Greg Good Lawrence Duffy.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
She was in that play Lady in the Dark about
Damon a squantwist.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Yeah, and then I'm doctors of Psychology.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Well, you know he's a guy you go doing, you're
doing all right, you're feeling all right and you're looking
all right and he tells you what's wrong.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yeah, it's for people with twisted metals. Uh, why is
Greg Lawrence coming down here? Well, since Noel Coward is
in England, she probably said to herself, whom in America
is most logical to be Noel's predecessor? So whom else
would the whom be? But you are truly whom? Well, uh,
tip tip Duffy, old Scrooge. I'll phone you back fortnight later,
(02:36):
Addie yasking about Eddy. You won't believe this, that's right,
but go ahead, Eddy for the last three nights believing.
And I have had a dream where Greg Lawrence comes
to me and she says, O, Gie, you want the
next no Coward?
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Sit down and write me you play. If you don't,
you're a jake.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Miss Lauren said trick.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Yeah, a funny way from England to use, ain't it.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Well they have them over that too, So you're the
next nol Coward or next don't. Yeah, well, Gatie Lawrence
ain't the first one said so plenty of people say
that I'm just as good as nol Cowan?
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Who said that?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Who says it? Who should I know? I don't go
around eavesdropping. So anyways, I wrote this play why, Eddie?
Speaker 4 (03:24):
I had to.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I had to dream, didn't I? You want me to
twart me libidos?
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Not unless you like them that way?
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Okay, you don't understand you see, dreams is a manifestation
of the frustration that arises out of your ectoplasm things,
that is, when you are out of conscientiousness.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Uh are you with me, Eddie? Well, I'm just as
confused as you are.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
I see that you have very little knowledge of uh prietry?
Uh Do you ever have a recurrent dreams?
Speaker 4 (04:01):
That happen often? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Yeah, I often dream that one of your players is
opening then the thousands of people there, you standing under
the marquee of the theater, smiling, when suddenly the marquis
falls and hits you on the here Henny, honey, dream
that's a horrible nightmare.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Oh no, I wake up smiling.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
What the use of trying to explain the crimet trick
to you.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Look.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
The human brain is divided into two apartments. See upstairs
is your consciousness? Out of that your head grows now
downstairs or at This is metaphysically described the parlor floor.
That is the unconsciousness once from which you dream. Now
(04:52):
leave us take the unconscious go, Fennigan, do you have
a dream?
Speaker 6 (05:04):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Boy, do what? I love the dream?
Speaker 7 (05:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
You love to dream? Huh? Bread shopped the monotony sleeping? Well, Finnigan,
do you.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Have any special dreams that you dream all the time?
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Go?
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Yeah, what what is it? Finnigan? Well, I'd rather not say.
Come on? Tell me fan again?
Speaker 8 (05:30):
Well, okay, I dreamed that I'm a butterfly.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Butterfly. That's very interesting the wings, Fetisha? Uh and tell
me uh fan again?
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (05:41):
What do you do when you're a butterfly? Mostly? I
sit on flowers?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
I see the narcissicious libido, U, Benagan.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Are you happy when you're dreaming you're a butterfly?
Speaker 8 (05:55):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Extremely extremely? I shop for one? Thank what? Oh the
girl butterflies?
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Of course, Monagan day, I want to known as Madame Butterfly. Oh, Fagan,
your dream is very simple to interypotate you have a
suppressed frustration to be annavigated to.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
An aviator, I'd be scared stuff up there?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Well, why when you're a butterfly flying around, they ain't scared,
so I am.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
That's why I'm sitting on the flowers wat you to
psychlizing you.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Let me get back to me play cat Crumby play
now listen, mister georgean nation? How can how can you
criticize a play that you ain't even read? Look, mister
Noel Coward, when there's corned beef and cabbage on the stove,
I don't have to look in the pot to know
what's cooking.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Eddie.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
If I paid any attention to you, I would still
be the bum that I am.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
But I got figure ambition.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Hyar hollo, crackpot, Hey, what's going on? Well Eddie here
is trying to frustrate me. Gret good Lawrence dream me
to write a play. Hey, so I wrote it? Well,
you was right, Arch If you didn't, you would be
pent up. Yeah, sy I once had to sell made
up and sing sing. The guy had a dream that
he escaped, so I says to him, follow your dream,
(07:32):
hop the wall.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
But he wouldn't. So what happened.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
He's still pet up and he'll be pent up for
five more years. Well, thanks for the encouragement, Crackpot. You
seem to know a lot about the crick Tree and
they're a regular sake fried free.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Well, well, in my business, you're loinedt Arch.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
The first thing that happens when you were a guest
at Sing Sing is the psycho.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
It's part of the sobs. Oh well, why did they
do that? They know you're a crook, don't they? Please? Arch?
Psychiatrically speaking, a crook like me is not a crook.
I am ill? What does he mean? He is ill?
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Well, he means like well or not a guy I
might have heart and in his adry, he's a trackpot
has lasting in his heart. Well, well not quite, Arch,
You see, the psychiatrist found out that I inherited me
criminal tendencies from me father, who had a tendency to
be quite a criminal.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Well where did your father get this tendency? Oh?
Speaker 3 (08:50):
He got it from his environment? Oh what was wrong
with his environment? He was in jail all the time. Oh, Archie,
Oh i am bane. Did you hear about the play
that I rote?
Speaker 9 (09:11):
Well, Archie, I've heard about your place, and from what
I hear, they'd be much more.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
Useful as practice targets.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Everybody's a critic. Please stick to your singing, mister Nuda.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Somebody order to remind that name is a fat shortage too.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Don't let it get you down.
Speaker 9 (09:31):
If the plans that you've made go up.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
And smoke, and each dream that you dream.
Speaker 9 (09:37):
Seems like a joke, don't let miss fortune make you fray.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
There's a great day.
Speaker 9 (09:47):
Comingana with a wonderful, wonderful dream, everybody with told will
be rolling in gold, will.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Be out of the doldrums. Mananna. They'll be beer and vettels.
Speaker 9 (10:02):
Maniana, They'll be strawberries floating in freeze. We'll be singing
a strain of a happy refrain, or we're launching a rainbow. Maniana.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
They'll be high, times, high in the sky. Times come
you mourners, and pick you up UMBs.
Speaker 9 (10:22):
There's a great day coming, Maniana, and Maniana sure to come.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
If this troubled world around you bring the sky.
Speaker 9 (10:33):
And makes you wonder what and when and why, forget
your fears and keep your chin up high.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Remember we're lucky to be.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Here in the land of the freeze.
Speaker 7 (10:53):
Time all will.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
All have fun.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
There's a great day.
Speaker 9 (10:59):
Come Manyana and Manyonana.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Surely I gotta get on with this plane now, Lady Alginon,
(11:28):
and that's the great admirance pot. She said, uh, pippingitty
old bean, I'm off to davy ship for a wicked
of cricket. And then she goes into a song. She sings,
Oh you can't play wickets with rickets. It ain't crickets,
we're not. You got tickets, Eddie. Sometimes me cleverness frightens me,
(11:51):
and brother, you got.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Something to be frightened though, Thank you Eddie.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
You know display will tendency to show the whole cavil
ritete of me helence.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
First I used my talent for right.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Then I had a soup son of me singing the
spice of composing, goodly portion of acting.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Mama fired your recipe. But look what come out?
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Okaydie, wait a minute, here she comes now, great good Lawrence.
This name's a high class name. I got to be presentable.
It's me hand on straight well kay gold Lawrence.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Well thirtie. It's one American to a fellow British.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Sure it gives me great pleasure to reach me hence
across the sea.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
Uh huh, little sea wouldn't do those hands any harm
that sunburn.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Uh. This is your first visit to the place, isn't it?
Speaker 5 (12:47):
Yeah, isn't it?
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Everyone?
Speaker 3 (12:51):
I'll give her one more chance, Miss Lawrence. Cozy little establishment.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
We have here? Yeah, I'm bad, I can't. Oh, thank you.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
I always wanted what was underneath lower basement streets.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
The lucky thing England is our ally. I punched it
name right, And I know by the way, I understand
that we have a mutual friend in coming.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
Who no, no, no, who?
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Why no? Do you know? Well?
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Well no, I'll tell you your friend.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
No college. Oh take me?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Why web bazoom pals? Yes, uh yes, Nolan me is
together all the time?
Speaker 5 (13:35):
Oh you are together all the time in England?
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Oh yeah? Where is Winston Churchill in England? Where's President
Roosevelt in Washington? US? Fight the way? Pardon me?
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Wrote adentity? He must be simply purmishing. Wi's keith respund
of tea? Thank you, Eddie, a cup of tea for
miss Lawrence.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
I'm sorry the tea bags and you who's got it? Mo?
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Reality? What's taking him along?
Speaker 8 (14:12):
The bags fell in the coffee's waiting for the cool
so he can go in after him.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Well, in that case, would you can't await Miss Laurence?
Speaker 6 (14:23):
I never mind, I'll take coffee, Eddie, a cup of
coffee for Miss Laurence.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Coffee any ready yet? I just put that on the fire.
Oh leave me no, when it starts to pick right,
this coffee ain't strong enough? The trip tell yours? Could?
I has you?
Speaker 5 (14:44):
So?
Speaker 4 (14:44):
How you do Miss Lawrence? Man present, mister Clifton.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Finn again, mister Finnigan, Miss Lawrence, Miss Laurence, mister Finnigan,
mister f you do?
Speaker 5 (14:55):
How do you do?
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Please? Miss Lawrence? I'll tell you when, mister Fenninger, Miss
Lawrence Clifton.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Oh, for heaven's sake, how do you do?
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Very well? If you don't care a formal introductions?
Speaker 3 (15:07):
The woman is a positive boy, good bro.
Speaker 8 (15:11):
I'm very fond of that name. My father's name happens
to be what are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (15:20):
You're nuts?
Speaker 8 (15:21):
Your father's name is author, Yeah, buddy, you're sure something
had called gutrow?
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Why? Why?
Speaker 8 (15:29):
Why is that coach? My mother's name is author and
a computer. M Well, anyways, I'm placed to meet your
gut Oh yeah, just like my mother got grow do
(15:51):
you mind if I call your author?
Speaker 5 (15:52):
No, I don't.
Speaker 6 (15:53):
Might have told all you don't call me mother, Miss Lawrence,
don't mind spinning.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
And you see he is a man with his own
little world and he's out of it.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Anyways, Gertie. To get to the point, I have wrote
a play for you and me. Oh you have, of course, sir.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Don't you remember coming to me and me Dreams and
asking me what for the pastream nights you have appeared
in me dreams?
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Holy smokes?
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Well that agent of mine book me. Next. Look, it's a.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Great play, Gerty, and you'll play the title role. I
watched the title getting Archie's.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
Garden, I said, as far as I get all the snappers.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Oh well, look, why.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Don't you run through it with me once and see
how it sounds. You'll swear that you're back with no. Oh, Gertie,
did you look over the plane?
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Yeah? Actually I did. I said it has a song
in it?
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Who wrote that? Who wrote the song? Only the author
of Flavor's Faces?
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Oh lord, that's moral.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Miss Lawrence. It may embarrass you to learn that that
moron is me.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Anyways, leave us not uh, leave us, get on with
the play.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Now, you see the scene is the Katon Rises.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Uh, I am sitting in me flat in London and
me velvet smoking pajamas. H anyways, there I'm sitting Sir
Rochie Buldochie Wilthy English barrister, Playboy and the all around cat.
Uh music Pete Meadows, Meadows, brut Right Meadows. I'm expecting
(17:46):
Lady Alginon, will you lay out my tuxedo.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
White tails, a black tails? Uh? Wait to night, very good.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Malloa kurt uh stiff up a front color wing tie,
black socks.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
By all means.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Also, I'll be wanting me Monica for which I the
left right? We'll have it your way, man Ah, that
must be lady Algie. No, now, this is going to
be difficult.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Mm hmmm, Sachie, Lady Algie, you're late.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
It's almost off.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
After I know, I know, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I was careless of you. You should have took a prime.
Of of course, you suspect why I asked you to
pop over.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
Yes, I was afraid of that. You mean it?
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Yes, I'm afraid it's well, this is it?
Speaker 4 (18:50):
This is it? The end the better?
Speaker 5 (18:57):
Yes, I sent it last night on the belt.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Did he How did you sense it?
Speaker 5 (19:02):
So I don't know. There was something about the way
you pushed me over the rails.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Oh, I say, I'm dreadfully sorry about that. Did you
get hurted?
Speaker 4 (19:15):
No?
Speaker 3 (19:15):
I fell on mother say that was a bit of buck,
that old blip this chicken.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Well, well, I suppose there's no chance.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Of going back, idiology. Please, let's shan't have a scene.
Shan't we.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
No, darling wish shan't good? Leave us be civilized about it.
Ciglet think m campaign Oh definitely.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Meadows, wait, meadows. After all, I suppose this is an occasion.
Make it the dollar bottle.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Memories.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
Yes, it's all being frightful fun, hasn't it?
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Yes, speak ripping?
Speaker 5 (20:02):
Do you remember those days that frightened?
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Right?
Speaker 4 (20:06):
And coney too? Oh?
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Come come now, Chris, step up a plane, old girl,
Come on, sit next me here at the harp squad.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
My sweet you remember, Oh Tom.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
I'm so terribly, terribly fond of view you're in our
little wrong debut. I find you so simply paintly devast.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Your hair is like a bunch of mules. Your eyes
are too deep Liverpool. But now it seems that we
are separating thing.
Speaker 10 (21:02):
This is it?
Speaker 4 (21:05):
This is it?
Speaker 5 (21:08):
At Westminster's anything. Not all has pined off and went up.
It's nothing but air. Oh how can I find them
in Piccadilly Square? This is.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
This is it? This is it?
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Please try out your tears. I can't stand your merity.
I'm tired of romance and Cupid's cupidity mean feelings for
you is just vegetarity.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
This is it. Leave go my heart.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
You're passionate, so discussionate, sossionate, be compassionate.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
Remember our first dinner with a passionate.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
No, I love what bust up, get messed up, all
rushed up, all fussed.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Up since that first kiss, Andy, I'm the fust Stop.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
This is it, this is it. I'm sure I'll forget you.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
It was all just a lost You'll marry some broken
but preps just a clock to the loom, my little doll.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Don't think me just a junk. Oh this.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
Thank you any you were simply marble you. Thank you
very much, Eddie.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
I'm afraid this player will have to be recasted.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
I think I have to get somebody who ain't quite
so good for this spot. Let's see who is there
that can't act as good as me, my little or
we'll find somebody a minute. Hello, well, Fred Allen, you're
coming down here next week, Fred will swell.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Wait a minute, I had to it.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
You know something funny, Fred, but o'here three nights Portland.
Hoppa has been coming to me in a dream. Yeah,
and she says to me.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Before we leave, Duffies, leave us. Put a couple of
nickels in Duffies jukebox. The plat is spinning, the needle
comes down, it's music. Have to paper?
Speaker 7 (26:35):
Did you.
Speaker 11 (26:53):
Back backs.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
The side?
Speaker 7 (27:49):
Special bus?
Speaker 10 (27:51):
Sister says, christ S.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
S s.
Speaker 10 (28:31):
Say.
Speaker 12 (28:48):
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(29:15):
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Speaker 1 (30:18):
Please send your questions and comments to host at CLASSICCOMEDYOTR
dot com. Until next time. In the words of Beatrice Wood,
my life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that
make a good road.
Welcome to classic comedy of old time radio. I'm your host,
Ron Ecklbarger. As if Archie's song leave Us Face it
was not enough, now he has written a musical for
him to perform with stage star Gertrude Lawrence. Leave us
Listen to this one hundred twenty first episode of Duffy's Tavern,
(00:36):
entitled Guest Gertrude Lawrence. It originally aired on March fourteen,
nineteen forty four.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
A special rebroadcast for the American Armed Forces and their
All Eyes. You're invited to drop in where the elite
meet to weet Duffy's Tabern.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Hello, Duffy's Talvin, were you late, mede dot you imad
just making Duffy ain't here?
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Hello Duffy.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
The crowd here you were never seen a swallow looking
bunch of crumbs as the English called them brutons. Well,
you say, Greg Good Lawrence is coming down hit tonight
soda crowd all dressed up formal. Yeah, practically everybody is
wearing shoes well ext mariarity. Of course he didn't have
(01:47):
an eighteen coup on, so he just went out and
got a pedicure.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Yeah, uh, Greg Good Lawrence Duffy.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
She was in that play Lady in the Dark about
Damon a squantwist.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Yeah, and then I'm doctors of Psychology.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Well, you know he's a guy you go doing, you're
doing all right, you're feeling all right and you're looking
all right and he tells you what's wrong.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yeah, it's for people with twisted metals. Uh, why is
Greg Lawrence coming down here? Well, since Noel Coward is
in England, she probably said to herself, whom in America
is most logical to be Noel's predecessor? So whom else
would the whom be? But you are truly whom? Well, uh,
tip tip Duffy, old Scrooge. I'll phone you back fortnight later,
(02:36):
Addie yasking about Eddy. You won't believe this, that's right,
but go ahead, Eddy for the last three nights believing.
And I have had a dream where Greg Lawrence comes
to me and she says, O, Gie, you want the
next no Coward?
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Sit down and write me you play. If you don't,
you're a jake.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Miss Lauren said trick.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Yeah, a funny way from England to use, ain't it.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Well they have them over that too, So you're the
next nol Coward or next don't. Yeah, well, Gatie Lawrence
ain't the first one said so plenty of people say
that I'm just as good as nol Cowan?
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Who said that?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Who says it? Who should I know? I don't go
around eavesdropping. So anyways, I wrote this play why, Eddie?
Speaker 4 (03:24):
I had to.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I had to dream, didn't I? You want me to
twart me libidos?
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Not unless you like them that way?
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Okay, you don't understand you see, dreams is a manifestation
of the frustration that arises out of your ectoplasm things,
that is, when you are out of conscientiousness.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Uh are you with me, Eddie? Well, I'm just as
confused as you are.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
I see that you have very little knowledge of uh prietry?
Uh Do you ever have a recurrent dreams?
Speaker 4 (04:01):
That happen often? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Yeah, I often dream that one of your players is
opening then the thousands of people there, you standing under
the marquee of the theater, smiling, when suddenly the marquis
falls and hits you on the here Henny, honey, dream
that's a horrible nightmare.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Oh no, I wake up smiling.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
What the use of trying to explain the crimet trick
to you.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Look.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
The human brain is divided into two apartments. See upstairs
is your consciousness? Out of that your head grows now
downstairs or at This is metaphysically described the parlor floor.
That is the unconsciousness once from which you dream. Now
(04:52):
leave us take the unconscious go, Fennigan, do you have
a dream?
Speaker 6 (05:04):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Boy, do what? I love the dream?
Speaker 7 (05:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
You love to dream? Huh? Bread shopped the monotony sleeping? Well, Finnigan,
do you.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Have any special dreams that you dream all the time?
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Go?
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Yeah, what what is it? Finnigan? Well, I'd rather not say.
Come on? Tell me fan again?
Speaker 8 (05:30):
Well, okay, I dreamed that I'm a butterfly.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Butterfly. That's very interesting the wings, Fetisha? Uh and tell
me uh fan again?
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (05:41):
What do you do when you're a butterfly? Mostly? I
sit on flowers?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
I see the narcissicious libido, U, Benagan.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Are you happy when you're dreaming you're a butterfly?
Speaker 8 (05:55):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Extremely extremely? I shop for one? Thank what? Oh the
girl butterflies?
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Of course, Monagan day, I want to known as Madame Butterfly. Oh, Fagan,
your dream is very simple to interypotate you have a
suppressed frustration to be annavigated to.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
An aviator, I'd be scared stuff up there?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Well, why when you're a butterfly flying around, they ain't scared,
so I am.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
That's why I'm sitting on the flowers wat you to
psychlizing you.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Let me get back to me play cat Crumby play
now listen, mister georgean nation? How can how can you
criticize a play that you ain't even read? Look, mister
Noel Coward, when there's corned beef and cabbage on the stove,
I don't have to look in the pot to know
what's cooking.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Eddie.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
If I paid any attention to you, I would still
be the bum that I am.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
But I got figure ambition.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Hyar hollo, crackpot, Hey, what's going on? Well Eddie here
is trying to frustrate me. Gret good Lawrence dream me
to write a play. Hey, so I wrote it? Well,
you was right, Arch If you didn't, you would be
pent up. Yeah, sy I once had to sell made
up and sing sing. The guy had a dream that
he escaped, so I says to him, follow your dream,
(07:32):
hop the wall.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
But he wouldn't. So what happened.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
He's still pet up and he'll be pent up for
five more years. Well, thanks for the encouragement, Crackpot. You
seem to know a lot about the crick Tree and
they're a regular sake fried free.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Well, well, in my business, you're loinedt Arch.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
The first thing that happens when you were a guest
at Sing Sing is the psycho.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
It's part of the sobs. Oh well, why did they
do that? They know you're a crook, don't they? Please? Arch?
Psychiatrically speaking, a crook like me is not a crook.
I am ill? What does he mean? He is ill?
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Well, he means like well or not a guy I
might have heart and in his adry, he's a trackpot
has lasting in his heart. Well, well not quite, Arch,
You see, the psychiatrist found out that I inherited me
criminal tendencies from me father, who had a tendency to
be quite a criminal.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Well where did your father get this tendency? Oh?
Speaker 3 (08:50):
He got it from his environment? Oh what was wrong
with his environment? He was in jail all the time. Oh, Archie,
Oh i am bane. Did you hear about the play
that I rote?
Speaker 9 (09:11):
Well, Archie, I've heard about your place, and from what
I hear, they'd be much more.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
Useful as practice targets.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Everybody's a critic. Please stick to your singing, mister Nuda.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Somebody order to remind that name is a fat shortage too.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Don't let it get you down.
Speaker 9 (09:31):
If the plans that you've made go up.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
And smoke, and each dream that you dream.
Speaker 9 (09:37):
Seems like a joke, don't let miss fortune make you fray.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
There's a great day.
Speaker 9 (09:47):
Comingana with a wonderful, wonderful dream, everybody with told will
be rolling in gold, will.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Be out of the doldrums. Mananna. They'll be beer and vettels.
Speaker 9 (10:02):
Maniana, They'll be strawberries floating in freeze. We'll be singing
a strain of a happy refrain, or we're launching a rainbow. Maniana.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
They'll be high, times, high in the sky. Times come
you mourners, and pick you up UMBs.
Speaker 9 (10:22):
There's a great day coming, Maniana, and Maniana sure to come.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
If this troubled world around you bring the sky.
Speaker 9 (10:33):
And makes you wonder what and when and why, forget
your fears and keep your chin up high.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Remember we're lucky to be.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Here in the land of the freeze.
Speaker 7 (10:53):
Time all will.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
All have fun.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
There's a great day.
Speaker 9 (10:59):
Come Manyana and Manyonana.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Surely I gotta get on with this plane now, Lady Alginon,
(11:28):
and that's the great admirance pot. She said, uh, pippingitty
old bean, I'm off to davy ship for a wicked
of cricket. And then she goes into a song. She sings,
Oh you can't play wickets with rickets. It ain't crickets,
we're not. You got tickets, Eddie. Sometimes me cleverness frightens me,
(11:51):
and brother, you got.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Something to be frightened though, Thank you Eddie.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
You know display will tendency to show the whole cavil
ritete of me helence.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
First I used my talent for right.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Then I had a soup son of me singing the
spice of composing, goodly portion of acting.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Mama fired your recipe. But look what come out?
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Okaydie, wait a minute, here she comes now, great good Lawrence.
This name's a high class name. I got to be presentable.
It's me hand on straight well kay gold Lawrence.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Well thirtie. It's one American to a fellow British.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Sure it gives me great pleasure to reach me hence
across the sea.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
Uh huh, little sea wouldn't do those hands any harm
that sunburn.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Uh. This is your first visit to the place, isn't it?
Speaker 5 (12:47):
Yeah, isn't it?
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Everyone?
Speaker 3 (12:51):
I'll give her one more chance, Miss Lawrence. Cozy little establishment.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
We have here? Yeah, I'm bad, I can't. Oh, thank you.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
I always wanted what was underneath lower basement streets.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
The lucky thing England is our ally. I punched it
name right, And I know by the way, I understand
that we have a mutual friend in coming.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
Who no, no, no, who?
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Why no? Do you know? Well?
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Well no, I'll tell you your friend.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
No college. Oh take me?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Why web bazoom pals? Yes, uh yes, Nolan me is
together all the time?
Speaker 5 (13:35):
Oh you are together all the time in England?
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Oh yeah? Where is Winston Churchill in England? Where's President
Roosevelt in Washington? US? Fight the way? Pardon me?
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Wrote adentity? He must be simply purmishing. Wi's keith respund
of tea? Thank you, Eddie, a cup of tea for
miss Lawrence.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
I'm sorry the tea bags and you who's got it? Mo?
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Reality? What's taking him along?
Speaker 8 (14:12):
The bags fell in the coffee's waiting for the cool
so he can go in after him.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Well, in that case, would you can't await Miss Laurence?
Speaker 6 (14:23):
I never mind, I'll take coffee, Eddie, a cup of
coffee for Miss Laurence.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Coffee any ready yet? I just put that on the fire.
Oh leave me no, when it starts to pick right,
this coffee ain't strong enough? The trip tell yours? Could?
I has you?
Speaker 5 (14:44):
So?
Speaker 4 (14:44):
How you do Miss Lawrence? Man present, mister Clifton.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Finn again, mister Finnigan, Miss Lawrence, Miss Laurence, mister Finnigan,
mister f you do?
Speaker 5 (14:55):
How do you do?
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Please? Miss Lawrence? I'll tell you when, mister Fenninger, Miss
Lawrence Clifton.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Oh, for heaven's sake, how do you do?
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Very well? If you don't care a formal introductions?
Speaker 3 (15:07):
The woman is a positive boy, good bro.
Speaker 8 (15:11):
I'm very fond of that name. My father's name happens
to be what are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (15:20):
You're nuts?
Speaker 8 (15:21):
Your father's name is author, Yeah, buddy, you're sure something
had called gutrow?
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Why? Why?
Speaker 8 (15:29):
Why is that coach? My mother's name is author and
a computer. M Well, anyways, I'm placed to meet your
gut Oh yeah, just like my mother got grow do
(15:51):
you mind if I call your author?
Speaker 5 (15:52):
No, I don't.
Speaker 6 (15:53):
Might have told all you don't call me mother, Miss Lawrence,
don't mind spinning.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
And you see he is a man with his own
little world and he's out of it.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Anyways, Gertie. To get to the point, I have wrote
a play for you and me. Oh you have, of course, sir.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Don't you remember coming to me and me Dreams and
asking me what for the pastream nights you have appeared
in me dreams?
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Holy smokes?
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Well that agent of mine book me. Next. Look, it's a.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Great play, Gerty, and you'll play the title role. I
watched the title getting Archie's.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
Garden, I said, as far as I get all the snappers.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Oh well, look, why.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Don't you run through it with me once and see
how it sounds. You'll swear that you're back with no. Oh, Gertie,
did you look over the plane?
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Yeah? Actually I did. I said it has a song
in it?
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Who wrote that? Who wrote the song? Only the author
of Flavor's Faces?
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Oh lord, that's moral.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Miss Lawrence. It may embarrass you to learn that that
moron is me.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Anyways, leave us not uh, leave us, get on with
the play.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Now, you see the scene is the Katon Rises.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Uh, I am sitting in me flat in London and
me velvet smoking pajamas. H anyways, there I'm sitting Sir
Rochie Buldochie Wilthy English barrister, Playboy and the all around cat.
Uh music Pete Meadows, Meadows, brut Right Meadows. I'm expecting
(17:46):
Lady Alginon, will you lay out my tuxedo.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
White tails, a black tails? Uh? Wait to night, very good.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Malloa kurt uh stiff up a front color wing tie,
black socks.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
By all means.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Also, I'll be wanting me Monica for which I the
left right? We'll have it your way, man Ah, that
must be lady Algie. No, now, this is going to
be difficult.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
Mm hmmm, Sachie, Lady Algie, you're late.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
It's almost off.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
After I know, I know, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I was careless of you. You should have took a prime.
Of of course, you suspect why I asked you to
pop over.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
Yes, I was afraid of that. You mean it?
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Yes, I'm afraid it's well, this is it?
Speaker 4 (18:50):
This is it? The end the better?
Speaker 5 (18:57):
Yes, I sent it last night on the belt.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Did he How did you sense it?
Speaker 5 (19:02):
So I don't know. There was something about the way
you pushed me over the rails.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Oh, I say, I'm dreadfully sorry about that. Did you
get hurted?
Speaker 4 (19:15):
No?
Speaker 3 (19:15):
I fell on mother say that was a bit of buck,
that old blip this chicken.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Well, well, I suppose there's no chance.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Of going back, idiology. Please, let's shan't have a scene.
Shan't we.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
No, darling wish shan't good? Leave us be civilized about it.
Ciglet think m campaign Oh definitely.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Meadows, wait, meadows. After all, I suppose this is an occasion.
Make it the dollar bottle.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Memories.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
Yes, it's all being frightful fun, hasn't it?
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Yes, speak ripping?
Speaker 5 (20:02):
Do you remember those days that frightened?
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Right?
Speaker 4 (20:06):
And coney too? Oh?
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Come come now, Chris, step up a plane, old girl,
Come on, sit next me here at the harp squad.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
My sweet you remember, Oh Tom.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
I'm so terribly, terribly fond of view you're in our
little wrong debut. I find you so simply paintly devast.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Your hair is like a bunch of mules. Your eyes
are too deep Liverpool. But now it seems that we
are separating thing.
Speaker 10 (21:02):
This is it?
Speaker 4 (21:05):
This is it?
Speaker 5 (21:08):
At Westminster's anything. Not all has pined off and went up.
It's nothing but air. Oh how can I find them
in Piccadilly Square? This is.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
This is it? This is it?
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Please try out your tears. I can't stand your merity.
I'm tired of romance and Cupid's cupidity mean feelings for
you is just vegetarity.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
This is it. Leave go my heart.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
You're passionate, so discussionate, sossionate, be compassionate.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
Remember our first dinner with a passionate.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
No, I love what bust up, get messed up, all
rushed up, all fussed.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Up since that first kiss, Andy, I'm the fust Stop.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
This is it, this is it. I'm sure I'll forget you.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
It was all just a lost You'll marry some broken
but preps just a clock to the loom, my little doll.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Don't think me just a junk. Oh this.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
Thank you any you were simply marble you. Thank you
very much, Eddie.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
I'm afraid this player will have to be recasted.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
I think I have to get somebody who ain't quite
so good for this spot. Let's see who is there
that can't act as good as me, my little or
we'll find somebody a minute. Hello, well, Fred Allen, you're
coming down here next week, Fred will swell.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Wait a minute, I had to it.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
You know something funny, Fred, but o'here three nights Portland.
Hoppa has been coming to me in a dream. Yeah,
and she says to me.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Before we leave, Duffies, leave us. Put a couple of
nickels in Duffies jukebox. The plat is spinning, the needle
comes down, it's music. Have to paper?
Speaker 7 (26:35):
Did you.
Speaker 11 (26:53):
Back backs.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
The side?
Speaker 7 (27:49):
Special bus?
Speaker 10 (27:51):
Sister says, christ S.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
S s.
Speaker 10 (28:31):
Say.
Speaker 12 (28:48):
This great broadcast is a presentation of the Armed Forces
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Radio Service.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Please send your questions and comments to host at CLASSICCOMEDYOTR
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